Very interesting, just bought at auction the reverse elephant bronze coin. I was enthralled by the elephant along with the Greek writing. Can’t wait to get it in hand.
Funnily enough my focus has recently shifted from Roman coins to ones of the Seleucids. I currently have a Tetradrachm minted in Babylon under Seleucus I in the style of Alexander and a Drachm of Antiochus VII. I never realised that the Seleucids utilised bronze so much over silver!
This is a great video, thank you. If you have more Seleucid bronze coins like these, a PartB to this video showing and talking about them would be very welcome!! I think there are at least a few more that seem to be common that I'd love to also see described. For example I'd like to hear about the significance of the winged thunderbolt and eagle reverses, and about various coins with them. Thanks for the amazing video!!
Thank You for your films - you have a great graphic. One mark: The denomination A (quadruple) is not the biggest one. We have AA and even AAA 🙂 (55-70 g)
I'm Ernie Joe, I'm an auto collision tech and auto painter. I happen to have some coins like the one u show on here.i found them in my truck after taking it apart to repair a collision it had. I thought that it was a small bag of washers but I noticed it look like rock formations then that's when I saw a face and head .so I started to clean them up some after many years of cleaning they look very pretty coins .
Id leave it as it is. Its not detracting from the coin's visuals and every intervention on a coin you dont make is one less intervention where you can damage it.
After say 10-20 grams per coin wouldn’t the value of the copper and tin be worth more than sliver even if sliver was more rare before the americas the mining smelting etc had to cost too much even compared to sliver or was copper just very low value during those times? It seams as today copper is of decent value I am curious about the values that metals had then
Precious metals were spectacularly scarce back then. Apart from that, our modern society is heavily reliant on copper for electronic and industrial applications, much more than precious metals. There is also a question of supply. The vast majority of the gold and silver we have today have come from industrial mining, so the price dynamics that dictate the relation of gold/silver vs Copper price is completely different nowadays.
I have a Constantine coin 28 mm 21.1 g A silverish color coin with a bumblebee on it and looks like some kind of deer on the back 16 to 17 mm at 8 g And I have a Alexander the Great coin 23 mm 12.3 g I was wondering if you could take a look at them to give me some information on them
I have a ton of tutorial videos teaching how to identify your coins, head over to my playlist and check them out. Sadly I dont have time to look at everyone's coins nor am I your personal numismatist :)
Awesome i love ur vids! i started watching you right as i got into ancients. I didn't know if people just memorize this stuff over time or if its always researching.
Because of this video I bought two Seleucid Empire coins at auction yesterday. I am looking forward to receiving them.
Very interesting, just bought at auction the reverse elephant bronze coin. I was enthralled by the elephant along with the Greek writing. Can’t wait to get it in hand.
Funnily enough my focus has recently shifted from Roman coins to ones of the Seleucids. I currently have a Tetradrachm minted in Babylon under Seleucus I in the style of Alexander and a Drachm of Antiochus VII. I never realised that the Seleucids utilised bronze so much over silver!
This is a great video, thank you. If you have more Seleucid bronze coins like these, a PartB to this video showing and talking about them would be very welcome!! I think there are at least a few more that seem to be common that I'd love to also see described. For example I'd like to hear about the significance of the winged thunderbolt and eagle reverses, and about various coins with them. Thanks for the amazing video!!
As always an amazing video!! My first ancient greek coin was a small bronze seleucid coin of Antiochus IX.
Great collection of amazing coins!
10:10 That elephant is cute
my first ancient coin was a Seleuicid, E size. i was very surprised by how tiny it was. great video!
Great stuff leo..😃
Never knew about Seleucids, Thanks Sir for the great tutorial
You are welcome! They are very interesting to study and to collect!
Really like those "bottlecap" designs. Will have to get me an example or a couple of those.
I enjoyed this video, as usual.
Spectacular! Which book do you recommend? It's a unclear period because coins don't have extended inscriptions.
I like those Antiochus VI elephants. Still need to add one. Seleukid coins are great!
Me too, such a charming little coin, and they are reasonably common, even for such a short reign.
Excellent video.
impressive work dude
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very nice serrated copper
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Thank You for your films - you have a great graphic. One mark: The denomination A (quadruple) is not the biggest one. We have AA and even AAA 🙂 (55-70 g)
Como molan las letritas griegas... La del elefante es cremita!
I'm Ernie Joe, I'm an auto collision tech and auto painter. I happen to have some coins like the one u show on here.i found them in my truck after taking it apart to repair a collision it had. I thought that it was a small bag of washers but I noticed it look like rock formations then that's when I saw a face and head .so I started to clean them up some after many years of cleaning they look very pretty coins .
I had a chance to get a Seleucid empire coin but I went with a ptolemaic one instead
Ptolemaics are really cool too! I need to look at egyptian bronzes one day.
Are you considering cleaning the dirt off of that Antiochus VI 'bottlecap' coin or would that risk damaging the patina or the bronze itself?
Id leave it as it is. Its not detracting from the coin's visuals and every intervention on a coin you dont make is one less intervention where you can damage it.
After say 10-20 grams per coin wouldn’t the value of the copper and tin be worth more than sliver even if sliver was more rare before the americas the mining smelting etc had to cost too much even compared to sliver or was copper just very low value during those times? It seams as today copper is of decent value I am curious about the values that metals had then
Precious metals were spectacularly scarce back then. Apart from that, our modern society is heavily reliant on copper for electronic and industrial applications, much more than precious metals.
There is also a question of supply. The vast majority of the gold and silver we have today have come from industrial mining, so the price dynamics that dictate the relation of gold/silver vs Copper price is completely different nowadays.
I have one!
Nice! They are lovely arent them? Which one have you got?
@@ClassicalNumismatics Antiochos VI Dionysos with an amphora on the reverse.
I have a Constantine coin 28 mm 21.1 g
A silverish color coin with a bumblebee on it and looks like some kind of deer on the back 16 to 17 mm at 8 g
And I have a Alexander the Great coin 23 mm 12.3 g
I was wondering if you could take a look at them to give me some information on them
I have a ton of tutorial videos teaching how to identify your coins,
head over to my playlist and check them out.
Sadly I dont have time to look at everyone's coins nor am I your personal numismatist :)
It seems to me like the bottle cap design is to make the coins resemble the sun. No?
It probably an anti-counterfeiting technique, thats what sounds most plausible to me :)
@@ClassicalNumismatics indeed sir, but to resemble the sun perhaps, since you were saying how important sun worship was to them
Do you research these coins before making your videos or do you just know most the attributes from memory?
I dont want to pass people wrong information, so everything I say here is research and fact-checked previously :)
Awesome i love ur vids! i started watching you right as i got into ancients. I didn't know if people just memorize this stuff over time or if its always researching.
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